I've been thinking maybe it wasn't a toddler but an adult on their knees. That would make it an easier situation to abduct someone from. Dealing with a toddler could be problematic. Maybe the adult stood to grab her when she asked "are you okay" and that's why she screamed.
They should be able to tell if she took off the watch after the stop, if that's the case then it lends more to the theory that it was a voluntary disappearance rather than abduction. If she wasn't wearing the watch prior to the stop then it doesn't really seem strange.
I am interested to know just how fast she was driving on that shoulder. Whatever her speed when comparing to the traffic around her, it doesn’t appear to be slow enough as to be looking for a small child. She doesn’t appear to slow at all until coming up on the spot that she stopped the car.
I don’t think it’s strange about apple watch. I own one and did for years and I often take it off and put it in my backpack or pocket.
It has only been 2 days! potential witnesses might not have contacted police or know what they saw was reportable until yesterday.
If her wig wasn’t glued or fastened down, that would be the reason for the hat.*Wondering why she had a hat on at dark. Did she usually wear a hat?
eta:
“We currently are investigating every possibility,’’ Hoover Police Department public information officer Lt Daniel Lowe said during a press briefing on 14 July. “We’re certainly leaving nothing off the table.”
She called 911 when she had pulled over after spotting what she said was a three- or four-year-old child, her mother said.
An officer was dispatched to the scene within three minutes.
Woman who reported toddler on the side of a highway returns home after going missing
‘Additional information will be provided when it becomes available’ after missing woman returns homewww.independent.co.uk
This is not completely umcommon. I'm am RN and nursing school is very competitive. Ofc, I graduated 20 years ago, but there were 600 applicant for less than 90 spots when I applied. She could have been waitlisted both times and kept applying until she was accepted somewhere. She could have not had all the pre-requisites yet the first time she applied, GPA not yet high enough, there could be so many reasons.
This is not what human trafficking looks like (I have been trained to spot signs from multiple places of employment multiple times by sex crime detectives & others working with them like victim advocates).The coordinates where the police are at currently (based off of this tweet) is: 33.364629, -86.843675
Just copy paste that into google maps. Its not a forestry area but its def a bit wooded. There is shopping centers and neighborhoods just beyond the trees. The restaurant, Taziki's is a 9 minute drive to this spot. The current time for sunset is
7:58 PM and it doesn't look like there are street lights on the highway? So it could've possibly be kinda dark out there at 9:30pm? I'm sure locals could chime in about that.
However, I'm curious as to why she didn't stay on the line with the 911 operator and contacted her family on the phone instead. I wonder what she told the operator.
What worries me a little bit is the possibility of the child being bait, as a few of you have mentioned. As bizzare as that is.
Clip from this article: Alabama - htcourts.org.
"Human trafficking is a big deal across Alabama. It is a significant issue in Birmingham, the state, and the region. Human trafficking is not only confined to the 1-20 corridor, as suggested by many media reports. This vice is spread across Alabama, in vast cities and rural areas, occurring in several variations. According to the Global Slavery Index, there is an estimate of more than 6000 human trafficking victims every day in Alabama, including forced labor and sex trafficking."
In November 2022, an undercover human trafficking operation in West Alabama was discovered and 6 people were arrested. That's my biggest concern for Carlee right now.
6 people arrested after undercover human trafficking operation in West Alabama
The West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force conducted a two-month undercover human trafficking operation that led to the arrest of six men on 12 felony charges.www.wbrc.com
Seems not to be the case. Victim til proven otherwise is the rule at WS btw.
Or maybe the headlight or glare gets to her.
Hannah Graham was the girl in the video at the outdoor mall. Morgan Harrington was also a victim, but not the first. The first survived her attack. Jesse Matthew was the serial rapist/murder.
Yes, all of this. They use highly vulnerable individuals who do not have any semblance of a stable life. Those individuals tend to go from home to home, or homeless altogether. Those are the type of individuals who won’t be looked for with a fine toothed comb.
EXACTLY. Unfortunately, social media has a huge role in everyone thinking everything is human trafficking, and bad events have occurred because of this (i.e. the lady shooting her Uber driver in TX thinking he was taking her to Mexico just because she saw a sign for Mexico while travelling on the BORDER of TX... sigh...)
Thank you for adding this. I am not a nurse, but many of my daughter's friends are. It is so common to go in with good grades and still get wait-listed. One of my daughter's friends got wait-listed at every school she applied to and it was very discouraging. She just kept trying until she got in and she was very successful in her courses; finished with flying colors and is now a nurse....in Birmingham. I just wanted to say this because it seems that there is a misperception that because she didn't get in on her first tries that somehow she was "failing" at something. Not necessarily true.
This doesn't sound like a scheme that could target anyone specific.
